Soviet forces entered Estonia and Latvia after ultimatums and entered Lithuania under a similar demand. The occupation followed the 1939 mutual-assistance pacts; subsequent controlled political...
Elections held under occupation offered voters a single approved list and were followed by petitions for incorporation into the Soviet Union. These procedures supplied a veneer of popular consent...
Newly installed assemblies adopted resolutions seeking incorporation. These votes followed Soviet military occupation and political coercion; the Soviet and Baltic accounts of the process remain...
